The rule of law provides two basic protections against arbitrary ordiscriminatory government action. It provides that the rule applied toa particular ...
Reseña:Because civil-law systems hire unproven jurists into career judiciaries, many maintainelaborate incentive structures to motivate their judges. ...
Reseña:The general objective of this dissertation can be stated in four steps: (1) To provide a precise definition of judicial independence; (2) to cr...
Reseña:Judicial independence has been a core politicalvalue in the United States since the founding ofthe republic. Alexander Hamilton, in urgingratif...
Reseña:... I explore the related question... of what alternative dispute resolution theorists need from a theory of justice. For the practice of alter...
We study how campaign contributions aect the voting strategies and eectivenessof justices in the Supreme Court of eight US states. A judge's voting st...
Reseña:In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, reporters face unprecedented challenges. Particularlyfor journalists who cover government and political b...
The last twenty years in the UK have witnessed a radical transformation in relations between the public and the state with regard to criminal justice ...
Reseña:lection season is within sight again, and with it come theElection season is within sight again, and with it come the obligatory attacks on the...
Reseña:This report was prepared at the request of the California Assembly Judiciary Committeeto explore the ways in which states have responded to Cit...
As I suggest below in Part I, federal sovereign immunity was adoctrine of limited effect in the early years of this republic andallowed for a number o...
Reseña:We want to consider what judicial independence means from an introspective ange - from the inside-out as it were, seen through the judges' eyes...
Judicial elections in the United States have undergone a dramatictransformation. For more than a century, these state and local elections wererelative...
Reseña: State judicial elections have been transformed during the past decade. The story of America’s2000–2009 high court contests—tens of millions of...
The document summarizes the structure of the court system in the State of New York: it also covers topics like state disability accomodations, alterna...
On behalf of the Judicial Council of California, we are pleased to present this operationalplan for achieving the goals set for California’s judicial ...
Reseña:Despite a title that evokes the Fox Television perennial When AnimalsAttack, When Courts & Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control ofAme...
Reseña:n August 1979, Time magazine featured an article titled,“Judging the Judges.”3 In that article, nearly 30 years ago,was a discussion about a nu...
This Essay focuses on “transnational judicial governance”—that is, the regulation of transnational activity by domestic courts.1 Specifically, the Ess...
Reseña:We propose a novel empirical framework for comparing two different political institutions,focusing on selection and retention of state court ju...